How can anyone take Andrew Lansley seriously?

He looks and sounds like Private Pike off Dad's Army. He's a health spokesman but worryingly and rather self-defeatingly sounds permanently like he's got blocked sinuses like that bloke in the Tunes adverts who says "Tunes" to the ticket collector in a very bunged up voice.

And now Frank Skinner has made him the butt of a very good joke (here on Question Time) when Lansley discussed his second job, as well as being an MP, doing "mostly a full day" 10-12 times a year as a non-executive director and getting paid £24,000 - well over the average national wage - for it.